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noun
- 1. a person, plant, or animal that is descended from a particular ancestor: "she's a descendant of Charles Darwin"
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a person who is related to you and who lives after you, such as your child or grandchild: He has no descendants. descendant of They claim to be descendants of a French duke. We owe it to our descendants (= people younger than us who will live after we have died) to leave them a clean world to live in. Compare. ancestor.
1. : one originating or coming from an ancestral stock or source : one descended from another. descendants of King David. a descendant of an ancient grass. 2. : one deriving directly from a precursor or prototype. Italian and other descendants of Latin. Synonyms. Adjective. bowed. bowing.
noun. a person or animal that is descended from a specific ancestor; an offspring. something deriving in appearance, function, or general character from an earlier form. an adherent who follows closely the teachings, methods, practices, etc., of an earlier master, as in art, music, philosophy, etc.; disciple. Astrology.
Definition of 'descendant' Word Frequency. descendant. (dɪsendənt ) Word forms: plural descendants. 1. countable noun [usually plural, usually with poss] Someone's descendants are the people in later generations who are related to them. They are descendants of the original English and Scottish settlers. [ + of] ...Lord Cochrane and his descendants.
The word descendant refers to something that has come down. For example, everyone is a descendant, or the end of a line of ancestors, just as modern art is a descendant of past art that contributed to its style and technique.
Define descendant. descendant synonyms, descendant pronunciation, descendant translation, English dictionary definition of descendant. a person or animal that is descended from a specific ancestor; an offspring: a descendant of the early settlers Not to be confused with: decedent – a dead...
DESCENDANT definition: someone who is related to someone who lived a long time ago: . Learn more.
noun. /dɪˈsendənt/ a person’s descendants are their children, their children’s children, and all the people who live after them who are related to them. He was an O'Conor and a direct descendant of the last High King of Ireland. Many of them are descendants of the original settlers. Topics Historyc1,Family and relationshipsc1.
noun. descendants. One whose descent can be traced to a particular individual or group. A descendant of Queen Victoria; descendants of a prize-winning horse. American Heritage Medicine. A person who is an offspring, however remote, of a certain ancestor, family, group, etc. Webster's New World. Something that derives from an earlier form.
DESCENDANT meaning: 1 : someone who is related to a person or group of people who lived in the past; 2 : a plant or animal that is related to a particular plant or animal that lived long ago.
